Musk-backed PAC affords Wisconsin voters $100 to signal petition in opposition to ‘activist judges’
A political motion committee funded by billionaire Elon Musk is providing Wisconsin voters $100 to signal a petition opposing “activist judges,” a transfer that comes simply two weeks earlier than an important state Supreme Court docket election. The PAC, America PAC, introduced the petition in a put up on X, additionally promising an extra $100 for every referred signer.
The petition said, “Petition in Opposition to Activist Judges Judges ought to interpret legal guidelines as written, not rewrite them to suit their private or political agendas. By signing under, I am rejecting the actions of activist judges who impose their very own views and demanding a judiciary that respects its role-interpreting, not legislating.”
The hassle adopted an analogous marketing campaign by Musk’s PAC forward of the November presidential election, when the group supplied as much as $1 million a day to voters in Wisconsin and 6 different battleground states who signed a petition supporting the primary and second amendments.
The most recent marketing campaign sparked accusations from the camp of Susan Crawford, the Democratic-backed candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court docket race. Crawford’s marketing campaign spokesperson, Derrick Honeyman, accused Musk of “attempting to purchase a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket to safe a positive ruling in his firm’s lawsuit in opposition to the state..”
Tesla, the electrical automotive firm led by Musk, sued Wisconsin earlier this yr over restrictions stopping it from opening direct dealerships within the state. The case might finally attain the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket, the place the election’s end result will resolve whether or not the courtroom stays below liberal management or flips to a conservative majority.
America PAC and one other Musk-funded group, Constructing for America’s Future, have spent greater than $13 million supporting Brad Schimel, the Republican-favoured candidate within the race, in line with figures from the Brennan Heart for Justice.
Schimel has intently aligned himself with former President Donald Trump, with Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, campaigning alongside him this week. America PAC has additionally been distributing flyers urging voters to again Schimel as a “pro-Trump conservative.”
The petition marketing campaign has already drawn authorized scrutiny. An analogous effort by Musk’s PAC in Pennsylvania final yr was challenged in courtroom, however a decide finally dominated that it didn’t violate state legal guidelines.
